Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
The other day I referred to poop as "the deliverable." More "Performance evaluation euphemisms invading everyday speech (ironically)" from Raymond Chen's blog.
I just explained to a new colleague, with reference to "Oregon Trail", that if his workload goes past steady into strenuous or grueling, he should let me know so I can bear some of it. …
"I think that's how you get stronger, is working through the pain." "Not if you die!" "You might fall over, yeah. But that's just ... heightening the contradictions. It's a Leninist model of personal fitness."
"Lovecraft once wrote a short story called 'At the Mountains of Madness.'" "I cross those every day!" "Yeah, we've built a highway through those mountains."
Just got off the column for this Sunday. Something I had to leave out: Mike Daisey wrote about his time at Amazon in his book 21 Dog Years (based on his monologue) and talked about …
Sometimes the subconscious just phones it in. Doing stand-up comedy about Battlestar Galactica? Sorry, not nearly inventive enough. The only creative element was a Cylon leader, played by Don Cheadle, whom I call "Kofi Cylan."
Leonard reassured me that the baby Nixon did not exist and look who's talking now!
A sensical-in-context quote from a friend: "I feel like Milton in Office Space, but people are piling staplers on my desk." More Miltonage.
Tips on small talk and my experience seeing "The Daily Show" get taped. Mildly entertaining.